Machine for cutting mock chicken legs



Sept- 9, 1952 J. A. GRIMM MACHINE -F'OR CUTTING MOCK CHICKEN LEGS Filed May 20, 1949 @@@QQQQ OQQQQQQO Plz/LM (Ittorneg Patented Sept. 9, 1952 t MACHINE Fon CUTTING Mock CHICKEN LEGS Joseph A. Grimm, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application May 20, 1949, Serial No. 94,315

1 Claim.

1 This invention relates to improvements in meat cutting devices, and more particularly to a novel meat cutting device adapted for the cutting of y products known to the trade as mock chicken legs.

An object of the invention is to provide a device of the type which will cut a plurality of mock chicken legs eiiiciently and uniformly.

Another object of the invention is tov provide a relatively quick means for preparing and cutting a large number of products.

Other and further objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side view partly in elevation and partly in vertical section of the device.

Fig. 2- is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view partly broken away of a part of the structure.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view of one of the knives and knife retainers.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of a completed mock chicken leg.

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view taken through the slotted box with the layers of meat and skewers in place.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral I0 refers to a table plate having a square depression II to accommodate the slotted box I2 having a bottom I3 having the uniformly spaced grooves i4 crossed at right angles by similar grooves I5, and the shallow, countersunk bores I6. At each corner of the bottom I3 is a spacer post I'I, square in cross-section and having a threaded bolt I3 projecting upwardly therefrom. Side walls IS and 2D, and end walls 2l and 22 are anixed edgedly to the bottom I3 by threaded means 23 and are provided with the uniformly spaced vertical slots 24 registering with the grooves I4 and I5 and conforming in depth therewith. A removable tcp plate 25 is provided with a plurality of countersunk apertures as at 26 aligned with the countersunk apertures or bores as at I3 of the bottom I3. The top plate 25 is adapted to rest on the corner spacer posts Il, which latter are shorter than the side and end walls to the extent of the thickness of said plate. A handle member 2l is disposed centrally of the top surface 28 of the plate 25. A plurality of wing nuts 29 engage the bolts I8 to secure the top plate 25 in place against the upper surfaces 30 of the spacer posts I'I.

A rectangular frame 3| has the tubular end segment 32, horizontally slotted in the upper side thereof as at 33 to receive the hooked ends 34 of the blades 35. A spacer tube 33 is similarly slotted as at 33 to receive hooked ends 34 at the opposite ends of the blades 35. The frame 3I is bored at 31 to accommodate the two bolts 38, and the wing nuts 39 engage said bolts to permit tightening the blades 35 in place in the frame 3|. An arm 45 has an integral cross portion 4I welded to the frame 3l at 42 thereof. The opposite end of arm 4I! is bored at 42 to accommodate the pin 43 in the cross-head 44 adapted for reciprocal movement in the slide 45. A connecting rod 46 has the pivot connection at 4l with the cross-head 44 and is apertured at 48 to pivotally engage the pin 43 on the crank wheel 50 in turn connected with the reduction gear 5I and the electric motor 52.

In use, a plurality oflayers of meat 53 are placed in the slotted box I2. The meat may usually slightly more than ll said box I2. The top plate 25 is then tightened into place by means of the wing nuts 29 to compress said layers. A plurality of shewer sticks 54 are then inserted downwardly through the countersunk apertures at 26, through the meat layers 53 and into the countersunk bores at I6 of the bottom I3. The blades 35 having been secured in place by drawing up the wing nuts 39, the motor 52 is started to reciprocate the blades as they are manually started in the upper ends of the grooves or slots 24 after the top plate 25 has been removed. T'he downward movement of the blades 35 is limited by one set of the grooves disposed horizontally in the bottom i3. The box I2 is then lifted and turned horizontally ninety degrees and replaced in the recess at II of the table plate I0. The cutting operation is then repeated whereupon the entire contents of the box I2 will be made up of a plurality of mock chicken legs, one of which is shown in Fig. 5.

It will be understood that the device is capable of many modifications in structure and design, without departing from the spirit of the invention, within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A device of the character described including a flat base having a shallow square recess in the top surface thereof, a square box adapted to nest freely in said recess, vertical end and side walls in said box having a plurality of spaced and oppositely aligned vertical slots, a bottom in said box having a plurality of grooves in its upper surface extending from end to end of said box and a second plurality of grooves intersecting at 3 right angles said first mentioned grooves all o1 REFERENCES CITED said grooves communicating with said side and The following references are of record m the end wall slots, vertical corner posts within said m of thi atent: walls shorter than the upper edges of said walls, e s p bolts extending upwardly from the tops of said 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS posts, threaded means on said bolts, a square Number Name Date fiat plate apertured to receive said bolts and 179,934 Mervin July 18, 1876 freely movable within the said Walls above said 695,501 Smith Mar. 18, 1902 posts forycompressingaapluraltyfofQhorizontal; 1,002,431 Noack Sept.-.;..5, 1911 layers of'meatto lbe held' in said boxby manip 10 '1,405,671' Crozier Febr-'1, 1922 ulation of said threaded means, said box bottom 1,462,717 Maus July 24, 1923 and said plate when in place having pluralities: V-H 2,036,403 Friesel et al. Apr. 7, 1936 of spaced vertically aligned boresadapted,ttt.,v 2,210,165# Mahlke Aug. 6, 1940 freely pass skewers to be forced through thecoinaaV 2l29`0169"" Debus July 21, 1942 pressed meat held therebetween. 15 FDREIGN PATENTS JOSEPHAMGRMM.. mlmbrA Country Date 231,305 Germany Feb. 20. 1911 

